The Order of Love
About the interpretation by US Vice President JD Vance of the theological concept of “ordo amoris” -the order of love- and its application to migrants deportation.
The Lie
Babylon, 522 BC: The Persian king Darius faces a revolt led by a presumptive heir of Nabonides, the last monarch of Babylon. It is unknown whether there were roadblocks or hunger strikes “to the last consequences”, but there was a battle in which the powerful Persian army defeated the rebels and captured its leader, who […]
The national sport
Every country has a national sport: cricket in India, rugby in New Zealand, the gangs of El Salvador (it had it and got through it), football in Brazil and the blockade of Bolivia. The sport of blockades is all about preventing vehicles of all sizes from crossing a road, allowing only pedestrians with their belongings […]
What the MAS neglected
According to President Luis Arce, the disaster of the MAS’s energy policy is due to the fact that “nationalization has been neglected.” In fact, the president criticized the governments that preceded him (omitting that he was the “super minister” of the economic area) who devoted themselves to monetizing the gas reserves inherited from liberal governments, […]
“Hic et nunc” against anti-logic
The asylum granted by Spain to Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia (EGU) – in reality a self-exile of the winner of the Venezuelan elections – has once again shaken the floor of Spanish-speaking politicians and activists. I will not deal with the reactions of the radicals who would have preferred to have a hero in their pantheon, […]
The obligation to align
At no time in history have plurality and tolerance of ideas and life choices been so appreciated and defended as in ours, yet no other era has been so polarized as to force everyone to align themselves with extreme positions. For the progressive and socialist left, liberals are all genocides, Zionists, exploiters and imperialists. In […]